1. My two friends, come crooked today until you bid farewell
To the sweet-fanged, fragrant-smiled one

2. For if you come crooked to me for an hour
I'll thank you until I'm hidden in my grave

3. Inform her, then intercede for me and bid her farewell
May God water her from the purest rain

4. And speak to her of my memory at Buthayna and see
If she rests a day or yearns for my memory

5. If the bonds of love between us are not cut
And she doesn't forget what I did in days past

6. You'll see in her a yearning and burning grief
For a separation, with tears flowing from her eyes

7. And if she has turned from our covenant after us
And listened to the words of the slanderer and defamer

8. You'll see her turn away, which she wouldn't have done
For I am no traitor or deceiver

9. I seek God's refuge from Buthayna casting me aside
In the lowest part of my life or on the Day of Resurrection

10. And being neighbors when I die, between me and her
So my death would be blessed if we shared a grave

11. I miss you out of love, while you feel no passion
And show no reluctance or indifference toward me

12. O you who makes love wander, do you see
A friend made to yearn for love as I do?

13. You show no signs of fading, though passion itself fades
And my love for Buthayna won't cease from deterrence

14. She is the full moon in beauty, and women are stars
Far different are stars from the radiant moon

15. She has excelled people in beauty, as the Night of Power
Was favored over a thousand months

16. God's peace be upon her, from one crazed
With passion and thoughts and temptation

17. And if you don't come crooked, I will turn
My love today and make you hear my estrangement

18. Does a dove in the nest weep for its lost beloved,
While I have no patience without Buthayna?

19. Why shouldn't I weep, when there is a mourner in the nest
After the nudity of waist and anklet has left me?

20. They say he is lovesick and mad with her memory
But I swear I'm neither mad nor bewitched

21. I swear I'll never forget you as long as the dawn gleams
And as long as a tribe moves on the barren sands

22. And as long as a star hangs suspended in the sky
And the branches bloom with the beauty of the lotus

23. My soul craves Buthayna's memory
As the drunkard craves wine, O Buthayna

24. I recalled my stance the night we embraced
Holding the soft-skinned moon of tears like the full moon

25. I almost lost control and gave in to desire for her
Wandering in passion as tears streamed down my throat

26. Oh, would that I knew if you ever spent
A night like ours, till we saw the dawn burst forth

27. Bestowing on us your talk, and at times
Bestowing on us your kissing from your mouth

28. Oh, would that just once my Lord had ordained that
So my Lord would know the fullness of my gratitude

29. If you asked for my life, I would give it
Finding it sweet if that was what you desired

30. A time has passed for me, that if given the choice
Between it and living forever till the end of time

31. I would say, “Leave me an hour with Buthayna”
While the heedless were unaware, then end my life

32. She of the broken fangs - if her saliva
Could revive the dead, they would rise from their graves

33. When I compose poetry not in her memory
She and her father refuse to let my poetry obey me

34. May I have no comfort after her, no life after she's gone
As long as this world lasts till the Gathering Day